Product Management Intern, Wirecutter

The role

You will join the Publishing Platform team to build and improve tools and storytelling experiences. You will contribute to active product work alongside product, design, and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Support the team on real platform work such as researching a problem, shaping requirements, or evaluating options
• Join conversations with editors and other stakeholders to learn how they work
• Collect and structure ideas and requests to help the team prioritize them
• Combine qualitative feedback with existing data to help frame problems and suggest how to test ideas
• Write concise updates, briefs, and other messages
• Build a working understanding of the technologies behind publishing tools
• Take part in planning, design reviews, and demos

Required qualifications

• Curiosity about how publishing and content tools work, how technology supports journalism, and how audiences experience Wirecutter’s journalism
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex ideas simply
• Comfort asking clarifying questions and learning quickly in unfamiliar territory
• An analytical mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with using AI tools in your day-to-day work
• Prior internship, project, or coursework experience in product, design, data, or journalism

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Restricted stock
• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• Company-matching 401(k) plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick days
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development programs

Before you apply

• Submit your own work and do not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process

About the company

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world through independent journalism.